Terri Schmitt

I paint 5 days a week at my studio at the Pendleton Art Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. My studio is open by appointment and on the last Friday of every month . You will find me on the fifth floor in studio 510A.

I am the daughter of an industrial engineer and an artist. My dad was the engineer, and I learned about spatial relationships and design from watching him build model airplanes. Both parents encouraged me to draw and to make things with my hands. My mother was a creative person. It was the 70s, so she was home with us. She taught me to sew, which is something that I still love to do.

I graduated from Ohio University and worked as a graphic designer for 20 years. In 2007, I trained at the Midwest Culinary Institute in Cincinnati, to be a personal chef. I operated a small catering and personal chef business for 4 years.

Since 2013, I have had the opportunity to refocus my career path, again, and to make fine art. I am a painter working in several media. In 2020, I started a large series of still life paintings in oil and cold wax. The perspective of those paintings interested me very much, and I have continued to create paintings that are similar, but done in torn paper.

I do a lot of commission work. It is a joy to work wi...

BSJ Advertising Journalism, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA

Summer Studies Program in Graphic Design and Photography, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Concentration in Graphic Design, College of Mount St. Joseph, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Intensive studies in drawing and painting beginning 2013
Drawing and Oil Painting with Greg Storer, Mason OH
Oil Painting with Gail Morrison, OPA, Cincinnati OH
Drawing and Painting Fundamentals with David Mueller, OPA, 2014-2017 Cincinnati OH
Drawing and Oil Painting (3-week Workshop) with Andrea Smith, Rome, Italy 2018

Arty Party Art Exhibit, Fort Thomas Kentucky, Aug 2024
Art Comes Alive, 2021, awarded "Best Still Life"
Viewpoint International Competition, 2021
Evendale Art Show, City of Evendale Ohio, 2020
Abstract Artists Exhibition at Cincinnati Art Club, 2019
Pendleton Art Center, 8th Floor Gallery 2018 to present
Evendale Art Show, City of Evendale Ohio 2017
Solo Show at Essex Studios, March 2015
2015 McCullough Hyde Healing Art Exhibition
Cincinnati Art Club Associate Member Shows 2013-2016
Woman's Art Club of Cincinnati, All-Member Show 2014
Color of Light Exhibition at Storer Art, December 2013